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Hello? This is not Visual Basic or a VB-look-alike. It's BASIC -- the programming language from the 1970's. Why oh why have we unearthed this old dinosaur. It was bad in the '70's and it gotta be bad now. .
Bring on the Python!
Yes, hello Unregistered! After taking a look at some screenshots, like the one here:
http://www.nsbasic.com/palm/info/Tour.html
I would say that this is a lot closer to VB6 than your good old Grandma's Basic from the '80s.
But still, basically I have the same opinion: I don't think that this will be very successful, not with a Palm emulator needed for running the whole thing.
Now where is the company or daring bedroom coder that ports Nokia's Python to UIQ3?
re sparx104: NS Basic has never charged a runtime fee for any of its products. There is no additional cost for enterprise/multiusers. Could the writer be confusing NS Basic with now defunct AppForge, which did have such fees?
re: unregistered: Have a look at the site. The look and feel will make VB users comfortable right away. It's nothing like BASIC from the 70's and 80's. No line numbers, no need to use GOTO, has user defined structures, etc. to make this a modern language.
Leveraging off the Palm API means the environment will be pretty mature and advanced in its first release. I'm sure NS Basic will add hooks to take advantage of the additional things that Symbian can do. Right away, though, the thousands of Palm programmers will have a new line of devices to run on.
Sorry, I was referring to the licenses for the actual development environment, not the runtime. I also wasn't aware that AppForge charged for their runtime (which, if I remember, was fairly awful). One advantage of the Palm version of NSBasic was the ability to bundle the runtime and the app together into one single app.
I moved from VB to RealBasic a few years back and found the transision very easy - it's almost the same language, certainly not like the older basics. However since moving to Java I much prefer the portability and better syntax.
The trouble with Python is that it's another language to learn for a restricted target. It's relatively new whereas most people know basic or C or Java or such like. I must admit though that I have little knowledge of it - is it worth learning for S60 development?
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